{"id":1435,"date":"2011-08-24T11:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T18:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2011\/08\/24\/visitors-in-our-garden\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T09:38:17","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T17:38:17","slug":"visitors-in-our-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2011\/08\/24\/visitors-in-our-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Visitors in our garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\">We had guests this morning \u2014 completely unexpected ones. Actually, they visited our next-door neighbors first, but then they decided to head our way. Can you see them?<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Quail-on-the-wall.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"285\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Quail-on-the-wall-300x268.jpg?resize=320%2C285\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">It&#8217;s a family of quail, complete with a baby or two. There were several more that disappeared before I could grab my camera, but I loved seeing their little topknots parading across our garden wall. \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had guests this morning \u2014 completely unexpected ones. Actually, they visited our next-door neighbors first, but then they decided to head our way. Can you see them? It&#8217;s a family of quail, complete with a baby or two. There were several more that disappeared before I could grab my camera, but I loved seeing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[246,271],"class_list":{"0":"post-1435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-garden","8":"tag-quail","9":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Quail-on-the-wall.jpg?fit=476%2C425&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-n9","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1994,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2015\/03\/03\/quail-progress\/","url_meta":{"origin":1435,"position":0},"title":"Quail progress","author":"Sandy","date":"March 3, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm\u00a0almost finished with the quilting on my quail project! 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